“No matter how cleverly you sneak up on a mirror, your reflection always looks you straight in the eye.”
Where to begin with 1987’s ‘Angel Heart’? The 80’s saw the collapse of the New Hollywood, and with it went those character driven portraits of fractured minds… Films so dependent and absorbed in their main characters that they feature them in every scene, films like Five Easy Pieces, A Clockwork Orange, or Chinatown, that dedicate themselves to showing you life through…
Over a month later, off the high of just a single watch in theaters, in the shithole that is Chicago’s Alamo Drafthouse, no less, I find it strange and ultimately quite telling that I can still recall just about every scene from Harmony Korine’s tropical noir, ‘AGGRO DR1FT’.
Every narrative stroke and visual experiment is fresh and original, totally innovative for better and for worse. Is there even a ‘plot’? Only in very general . The “protagonist” of the film…
I think this may be one of the most unoriginal films in the past 25 years, possibly ever. It’s definitely David Gordon Green’s most ‘nothing’ movie yet. Movie goes nowhere, does nothing, leaves no lasting impact of any kind. I didn’t even feel like I had seen a movie after it ended, if that makes any sense. Characters exist as props and words have no meaning. You can probably guess the entire plot of the movie before it starts. Ben…
The best espionage film of 1970. Another damn solid George Peppard vehicle lost in time. Hollywood just never really gave him a fair shot; his films weren’t nearly as publicized as his contemporaries and he never really found his footing along the likes of Paul Newman, Steve McQueen, and Warren Beatty. He should’ve been a much bigger star. Unfortunately this came out the same week as Bob Rafelson’s ‘Five Easy Pieces’ debuted, which was Jack Nicholson’s first lead role after…
The Ultimate Trip
‘2001: A Space Odyssey.’ Where to begin. How to begin? What words could I possibly come up with that could encapsulate just how much I adore this film? To summarize my love of it would be to summarize my love of cinema, something that just can’t be done in one review. A film many have called the pinnacle of science fiction cinema, a film that has entranced viewers since its release almost 52 years ago, a film…
The neo-noir genre wouldn’t be what it is today without 1974’s ‘Chinatown.’ It was a film that should’ve changed Hollywood, a film composed of the very best 70’s filmmaking techniques in every respect. Watching that film is watching the creative peak of everyone involved (and by extension Hollywood and its entire culture), due to their individual ion for the subject matter and the close knit community that the film’s production was made up of. Suffice to say, a sequel would…
